10,300 antiquities seized from house in Bulgaria's Kresna http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n120886 Kresna police have seized 10,300 antique coins from a...
1.5 tons of ancient coins discovered in Shanxi http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-08/31/content_6071511.htm A cellar containing 1.5 tons of ancient coins,...
Black Archaeology-- big business in Abkhazia http://www.geotimes.ge/index.php?m=home&newsid=6475 Instead of discovering and preserving the history of Georgia,...
Legal constraints prevent UNESCO backing Iran in Achaemenid bas-relief case: official http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=545641 An official has...
Parthian and Sassanian Sites of Abyaneh are in Danger http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_22566.shtml Continuation of hotel construction in Abyaneh...
Relax, lions aren't going anywhere, Field says http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/552998,CST-NWS-lion12.article Field Museum officials Tuesday denied overseas...
Roman grave dug up at Corfe Castle http://tinyurl.com/3y26d5 EXCITEMENT is growing over the discovery of a suspected Roman grave at Corfe Castle. Corfe Castle...
Improper storage threatens artifacts http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=51870 Thousands of boxes of archaeological artifacts are currently...
... I usually only lurk on this list, but this presentation inspired me to comment. This is only one of many, many such small museums around the world. When I...
This is not a unique situation. Rotting textiles, lack of space for basic storage, artefacts hidden away in basements and not on display....I have several...
Italian cops bust antiquity traffickers http://tinyurl.com/ytnqye (UPI) Police have foiled a scheme to sell millions of dollars worth of artifacts plundered...
Golden copies of stolen Danish national treasure snatched from exhibition http://tinyurl.com/2lemle (IHT) The prized replacement copies of lost Danish...
Greek Antiquities Returned From U.S. http://tinyurl.com/2eo3pq (AP) An ancient stone coffin and sculpture of a lion's head have been returned to Greece after...
Egypt antiquities official held http://tinyurl.com/ynmrg5 (BBC) A top official in the Egyptian authority for antiquities has been arrested as part of an...
ACE Promotes Ancient Coins for Education http://tinyurl.com/ysbbte In a day and age when there are chronic anxieties about attracting young collectors to the...
Why coins matter http://www.savingantiquities.org/feature.php by NATHAN T. ELKINS <http://savingantiquities.org/aboutusmembers.php#207> ABSTRACT: Ancient coins...
Before immediately accepting the denunciations of the SAFE feature, I urge to the reader to read the article for himself/herself and to make their own...
I simply do not understand the accusation that Nathan Elkins' SAFE text is "incoherent"; I think it sets out the case very clearly and logically to those...
In an effort to assist this discussion in becoming as productive as possible, I will comment on Dr. Barford's remarks below. This commentary should not be...
"I also think there is no basis for the claim that it "does not move us closer to a solution". Elkins does point to where a totally reasonable solution is to...
... I really do not see that this is the case or that this would be a "difficulty". It presents a point of view, and that is a conservation argument about the...
Voz Earl writes; ... Hmmm. That seems to me an enormous leap in logic from what is actually written. As I read it, he was proposing that responsible collectors...
Here's a thoughtful response from the "other side" of the collecting issue. ... From: Unidroit-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Unidroit-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf...
A "central issue" from the collecting perspective is what the words "proper documentation of provenance" actually mean. It is time (and past time) that this...
Another numismatist, Fleur Kemmers, has weighed in on the discussion: http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/2007/09/coins-contexts-and-collecting.html Best, ...
... Neither, of course, did I. I had in mind cognitively accessible to the moderately educated reader. I really do not see any specific "archaeological code...
All please also read the response from a responsible collector who is not insensitive to archaeology interests: http://tinyurl.com/2jox2z The archaeology lobby...
